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Akol Vankar Lonyamoi, 26, is a Nutrition Officer with World Vision Juba in South Sudan. She gives a personal account of her career path to humanitarian work. Akol grew up in Kenya and Uganda as a refugee, so she fully understands the challenges and instability of her fellow countrymen and women. Akol...

A record 65.3 million people are now forcibly displaced, over 60% of who remain within their own country making them Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Darfur marked World Humanitarian Day 2016 by holding a drawing competition at Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Children in...

On World Humanitarian Day, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson is calling for increased global leadership to address humanitarian crises.
“Today, the scale of human suffering is greater than at any time since the United Nations was founded. A record 130 million people are now...

Rebecca Olul
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, UNICEF, Port Vila, Vanuatu
I was working in Port Vila when Tropical Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu on 13 March 2015. Vanuatu is my family’s home. Cyclone Pam was the biggest cyclone I have ever experienced. There was a point during the...

It was a night of firsts: the first time a video was projected onto the iconic glass-and-marble façade of the United Nations Headquarters, and the first time tweets from the public were cast onto the building, turning it into an interactive Twitter wall.
These eye-catching events took place on the...